Technical Hints

Part 1 – Configure the unit to start logging in ‘DEBUG’ mode and replicate the issue

Login to the web user interface and select the ‘admin‘ user. After selecting the ‘admin‘ user go in to advanced mode by pressing ‘advanced‘ on the top right of the screen.

Once ‘advanced‘ mode is applied press the ‘voice‘ tab and also the ‘system‘ tab. Once on the ‘system‘ page scroll down until you get to ‘Optional Network Configuration‘ and in the drop down box next to ‘Debug Level‘ set this to ‘DEBUG‘ and press ‘Submit All Changes‘.

Now that the phone is logging everything in ‘DEBUG‘ mode you need to replicate the issue.

Part 2 – Generating the log

Now the you’ve replicated the issue we need to export the log.

To do this follow the steps below:

Login to the web user interface as before using ‘admin‘ and ‘advanced‘ mode. Once logged in select the ‘info‘ tab and also the ‘Debug Info‘ tab. Once you are on this page press the ‘Generate PRT‘ button.

Once you press the button you will get a popup box asking you to enter the date and time of the problem as well as selecting a description. If your problem isn’t listed select ‘Other‘ and press ‘Submit‘.

After pressing ‘Submit‘ and allowing the phone to generate the file you should get another popup notification saying the PRT file has been generated and can be access from the phone directly. Press ‘OK‘ and download the file by clicking on the PRT file link across from the ‘Generate PRT‘ button.

If you have contacted our support team regarding an issue with CounterPath’s Bria Stretto application we may require some logs from your application that you will need to generate.

This blog post should act as a rough guide on how to obtain the log as it may vary slightly depending on the application version and also the make and model of your device.

Step 1 – Open the Bria Stretto application and replicate the fault

Step 2 – Once the fault has been replicated press the ‘Cog’ icon. (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 3 – Once the new page loads, select ‘Advanced Settings’ (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 4 – Once the next page loads, scroll down until you reach ‘Application Logging’ and press ‘Send Log’. Don’t press ‘Call Statistics’. (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 5 – Once you press ‘Send Log’ it will display the image below. Once you are on this page press ‘Yes’ to generate the log

Step 6 – After the log has been generated and sent to CounterPath’s server it will display something similar to the image below with a ‘Log Reference’. (It is Important to make a note of this reference)

Step 7 – Contact us with the log reference and the user account this log belongs to so we can find it on the CounterPath Portal.

Important: You need to contact us once the log has been generated as they don’t stay on the portal for long.

If you have contacted our support team regarding an issue with CounterPath’s Bria Stretto application we may require some logs from your application that you will need to generate.

This blog post should act as a rough guide on how to obtain them because it may vary slightly depending on the application version and also the make and model of your device.

Obtaining the logs from an Android device

Step 1 – Open the Bria Stretto application and replicate the fault

Step 2 – Once the fault has been replicated press the ‘Cog’ icon. (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 3 – Once the new page loads, select ‘Advanced Settings’ (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 4 – Once the next page loads, scroll down until you reach ‘Application Logging’ and press ‘Send Log’. (Highlighted in the image below)

Step 5 – Once you press ‘Send Log’ it will display the image below. Once you are on this page press ‘Yes’ to generate the log

Step 6 – After the log has been generated and sent to CounterPath’s server it will display something similar to the image below with a ‘Log Reference’. (It is Important to make a note of this reference)

Step 7 – Contact us with the log reference and the user account this log belongs to so we can find it on the CounterPath Portal.

Important: You need to contact us once the log has been generated as they don’t stay on the portal for long.

Our Technology Director, Tim Bray presented at UKNOF40 last week. Taking place at Manchester’s Central Convention Complex on Friday 27th April, the event was a free full-day conference for anyone within or interested in the internet industry.

As the person responsible for our system developments, Tim knows a lot about internet security and regularly consults our vendor partners on their provisioning services. Find out what he had to say in his presentation, ‘IPv6 in an Office’ in the video below.

We have been informed by Panasonic that phones manufactured in mid-2017 have a problem with the embedded client certificate.

Affected devices are all TGP600/HDV series manufactured from July to November 2017. The issue is that the certificate loaded into the device at the point of manufacture only lasts for one year instead of the usual thirty. This affects provisioning systems which secure connections by validating a device’s client certificate. As a result of this, at some point in July 2018, these devices will start to fail to provision if client verification is being used.

The fix is to upgrade the firmware of the device to the following versions (or newer):

Model Name

Firmware Version

Download Link

KX-TGP600

06.021

KX-HDV130

06.121

KX-HDV230

06.121

KX-HDV330

06.021

KX-HDV430

06.021

For customers using our provisioning platform, please contact us to organise upgrades of your phones. We can handle this automatically for you, but will require your consent to do so – phones will not be automatically upgraded.

For customers using other provisioning systems, please get in touch with whoever manages the system to organise the upgrades. If they require assistance, we are happy to help.

We would like to apologise on behalf of Panasonic for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, you can call us on 01484 840048 or email support@provu.co.uk.

To upload the config file login to the web user interface of the phone and go to “Settings” > “Configuration” > Select the “Choose File” button next to “Import CFG Configuration File” and select the file on your PC > After selecting the file press the “Import” button for it to upload.

After the file has been uploaded the setting will be enabled.

Using USB call recording

1) Connect the USB stick to the phone and it will display a message saying “USB Flash Drive Connected” and display a logo of a USB Stick in to middle of the screen like above. (This will appear even if the setting is not enabled)

2) To use the feature during a call you will now notice a “More” soft-key appears. If you press this, you will get the option to start recording the call.

3) Press the “Start REC” button then you will have the option to pause or stop the recording. If you pause the recording you will have the option to start again or stop.

4) If you press the stop option you will see a notification saying the recording has successfully been saved.

5) To listen to the recording either disconnect the USB and connect it to a computer or alternatively press the “Menu” button whilst the phone is not on a call and press enter on the “USB” option.

6) Then Select “Browse Audio”

7) Then select an audio file and press play:

8) The recording will then automatically start playing. You can pause, rewind and fast forward the recording.

We recently set up our 2N IP Vario to wake up our computers when we scan our key fobs to enter the office. This means that our employee’s computers are switched on and ready to go before they even arrive at their desk.

We did this by writing a web app which uses the ‘Wake on LAN’ protocol, this was then added to 2N’s automation feature. ‘Wake On LAN’ is an existing protocol supported by many desktop computers.

Once a user scans their key fob on the IP Vario it then sends a HTTP request to our web app that includes the id of the key fob. The app then finds which user has scanned into the building by looking up the id of the key fob which was used and finds the associated user. With the username, the app then looks up the mac address for that user’s computer which calls Wake On LAN to broadcast a magic packet across the network. If the PC has power but is not turned on the computer will then boot.

Here is an example of the config we set up in our IP Vario’s automation: